Welcome back to guest blogger Leslie White, CPCU, ARM, CIC, CRM, Croyden Consulting, LLC. In this excerpt, Leslie offers tips on the managing risks of serving liquor at an association event. What happens if someone attends your event and then causes harm to another or themselves? MORE

Leagues as Trade Groups While the NFL is organized as an exempt nonprofit under the current law, it isn’t the only one. The National Hockey League and golf’s PGA Tour hold similar statuses, according to Coburn. MORE

Walt Disney is widely regarded as having been a great leader. Having never met Mr. Disney, I certainly cannot speak directly to that. However, the business he created is still thriving today – largely because of the ideals he instilled in his business and his employees. I read an interesting article about Mr. Disney and a book written by a long-time former employee and Disney executive recently. . MORE

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Photo courtesy of myjoboption.com. Not that long ago, interns were known as the coffee getters, copy makers and phone answerers. In other words, the grunt workers. Or office gophers, perhaps. Thankfully, those days are gone (for the most part). MORE

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. by Tony Hsieh. Business Plus, 2010. The online retailer Zappos is arguably the premiere poster-child for company culture in today’s business world. MORE

What’s your leadership mindset: linear or exponential ? It’s important to embrace failure, sure, but don’t let that prevent you from doing your homework in the first place. Does increased social media use make people more unhappy ? More on shared CEO relationships from Associations Now. Member engagement: it’s complicated. Brand and culture: what you do is more important than what you say. You don’t “own” your members – they own you. MORE

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By adding key benefits requested via member feedback, the American Counseling Association has sustained growth for several years. Now it’s turning to data-based segmentation to keep the streak alive. Think back to March 2011. MORE

It’s budget planning season for many meeting professionals. Many are poring over spreadsheets, as they seek out creative ways to do more with less. The burning question: What items can be trimmed without negatively impacting the attendee experience. MORE

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Is the label “young professional” harmful or helpful? It probably depends on when and where it is used, according to a group of YPs who discussed its implications at ASAE’s NextGen Summit. At the end of the day, I don’t know that it matters what we call ourselves or what our associations call us. … MORE

In today’s rapidly changing world, if you are not moving forward, you are falling behind. Our challenge is to keep pace with the changing tides of our profession. To do that, you have to constantly learn, unlearn and relearn. MORE

We all want cohesive teams, and to get them, I hear a lot about shared vision. The leader is responsible for providing a clear vision for the team, and once everyone is on board with this singular vision, the team performance starts to flow. It’s awesome. MORE

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It seems like I have this conversation about once a week: Me: Hi, nice to meet you. How can I help you change the world with a new website for your association? Client/Prospect: Hmm. Changing the world is nice. What I really care about is how fast you can design and launch my new site. MORE

Many of us are looking for the next, big, shiny new technology tool. Yet the noise about new technologies makes it very difficult to identify which tools really matter. The parade of new technologies and advances is persistent. MORE

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It seems like I have this conversation about once a week: Me: Hi, nice to meet you. How can I help you change the world with a new website for your association? Client/Prospect: Hmm. Changing the world is nice. What I really care about is how fast you can design and launch my new site.

I’m always amazed how many professional associations do great things and then forget to tell anyone about it. Your organization’s accomplishments shouldn’t be a secret. Good news is inspiring, and your audiences—stakeholders, association members, future members—will want to share in the moment.

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Photo courtesy of myjoboption.com. Not that long ago, interns were known as the coffee getters, copy makers and phone answerers. In other words, the grunt workers. Or office gophers, perhaps. Thankfully, those days are gone (for the most part).

So you’re thinking about hiring a consultant. How can you make sure the resources you’re investing in the relationship are well-spent? First question to ask yourself: should you be hiring a consultant at all?

On this day in 1960, Nixon and Kennedy debated on television. This was the first time a presidential debate had been televised. Regardless of your political persuasion and thoughts on the candidates, one thing has been talked about in the 53 years since — presence.

Welcome back to guest blogger Leslie White, CPCU, ARM, CIC, CRM, Croyden Consulting, LLC. In this excerpt, Leslie offers tips on the managing risks of serving liquor at an association event. What happens if someone attends your event and then causes harm to another or themselves?

Failing careers advice. A recent Ofsted report highlighted that many schools do not provide adequate careers advice to pupils. The provision of careers advice became the responsibility of individual schools from last year. My own experience of careers advice at school (a while ago now!)

image source I was proofing some copy written for my association''s blog the other day and I came across the word "awe-inspiring." Now, in defense of the person who wrote it, we use our blog to talk about things that are new and exciting about the industry our association represents.

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Welcome back to guest blogger Leslie White, CPCU, ARM, CIC, CRM, Croyden Consulting, LLC. In this excerpt, Leslie offers tips on the managing risks of serving liquor at an association event. What happens if someone attends your event and then causes harm to another or themselves?

Failing careers advice. A recent Ofsted report highlighted that many schools do not provide adequate careers advice to pupils. The provision of careers advice became the responsibility of individual schools from last year. My own experience of careers advice at school (a while ago now!)

image source I was proofing some copy written for my association''s blog the other day and I came across the word "awe-inspiring." Now, in defense of the person who wrote it, we use our blog to talk about things that are new and exciting about the industry our association represents.

We all want cohesive teams, and to get them, I hear a lot about shared vision. The leader is responsible for providing a clear vision for the team, and once everyone is on board with this singular vision, the team performance starts to flow. It’s awesome.

What’s your leadership mindset: linear or exponential ? It’s important to embrace failure, sure, but don’t let that prevent you from doing your homework in the first place. Does increased social media use make people more unhappy ? More on shared CEO relationships from Associations Now. Member engagement: it’s complicated. Brand and culture: what you do is more important than what you say. You don’t “own” your members – they own you.

Walt Disney is widely regarded as having been a great leader. Having never met Mr. Disney, I certainly cannot speak directly to that. However, the business he created is still thriving today – largely because of the ideals he instilled in his business and his employees. I read an interesting article about Mr. Disney and a book written by a long-time former employee and Disney executive recently. .

Guest post by Maria Peterson, an early education specialist who writes about advocating for head start schools. ————— Many college students are willingly without a landline, but few are without their social media in the palm of their hand.

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. by Tony Hsieh. Business Plus, 2010. The online retailer Zappos is arguably the premiere poster-child for company culture in today’s business world.

With political leaders blocking the processing of same-sex spouse benefits for members of the National Guard in four states, the American Military Partner Association is working with the American Civil Liberties Union to fight back. The U.S.

Conference audiences of days gone by were satisfied with the gathering of colleagues, a mediocre experience and a few useful tips. Today’s audiences are more demanding and sophisticated. They expect to learn practical and useful information that solves their individual problems.

Flickr Photo: Mr. T in DC. Note From Beth: Next month I’m lucky enough to be doing the keynote at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in San Francisco to share some ideas from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit book award.

Leagues as Trade Groups While the NFL is organized as an exempt nonprofit under the current law, it isn’t the only one. The National Hockey League and golf’s PGA Tour hold similar statuses, according to Coburn.

Many of us are looking for the next, big, shiny new technology tool. Yet the noise about new technologies makes it very difficult to identify which tools really matter. The parade of new technologies and advances is persistent.

Is the label “young professional” harmful or helpful? It probably depends on when and where it is used, according to a group of YPs who discussed its implications at ASAE’s NextGen Summit. At the end of the day, I don’t know that it matters what we call ourselves or what our associations call us. …

A new report shows how venue staff can affect an attendee’s meeting experience, which is backed up by CVBs investing in their local hospitality staff to ensure they deliver first-rate customer service.

In today’s rapidly changing world, if you are not moving forward, you are falling behind. Our challenge is to keep pace with the changing tides of our profession. To do that, you have to constantly learn, unlearn and relearn.

I love decks related to libraries. I feel like they are totally relevant to associations. Check this one out, you’ll see what I mean. Besides which, it’s by the always awesome Hilary Marsh , who works with a ton of associations.

Note From Beth: The cartoon above is from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” and was alluding to what I call the “ Cute Animal Theory ” that content performs better when you have a cute animal, a dog, a cat, or even a squirrel.

By adding key benefits requested via member feedback, the American Counseling Association has sustained growth for several years. Now it’s turning to data-based segmentation to keep the streak alive. Think back to March 2011.

It’s budget planning season for many meeting professionals. Many are poring over spreadsheets, as they seek out creative ways to do more with less. The burning question: What items can be trimmed without negatively impacting the attendee experience.

Rushing into a name change can create problems. I know. One of my associations changed its name (to broaden its reach) and lost its identity with its existing members! Back in June, I wrote Rebranding Can Cause Controversy for Associations Too.

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